Online planning and delivery technique for radiotherapy of spinal metastases using cone-beam CT: Image quality and system performance

International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1229-1237

  Létourneau, Daniel ^a   Wong, Rebecca ^a,b   Moseley, Douglas ^a,b   Sharpe, Michael B ^a,b   Ansell, Stephen ^a   Gospodarowicz, Mary ^a,b   Jaffray, David A ^a,b  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cone beam CT; Image guided radiation therapy; Online planning

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; IMAGE QUALITY; MEDICAL IMAGING; ONCOLOGY; PATIENT TREATMENT; STANDARDS;

CONE-BEAM CT; IMAGE-GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY; ONLINE PLANNING;

RADIOTHERAPY;

ACCURACY; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOSIMETRY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FILM DOSIMETER; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; PHANTOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RADIATION DOSE DISTRIBUTION; SPINE METASTASIS; STANDARD; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ARTIFACTS; CALIBRATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HUMANS; PHANTOMS, IMAGING; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY PLANNING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RADIOTHERAPY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; TECHNOLOGY, RADIOLOGIC;

EID: 33847259277     PISSN: 03603016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijrobp.2006.09.058     Document Type: Article

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